DIALECTAL FORMS DURING DISCOURSE OF POOR, URBAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESCHOOLERS

Authors
WASHINGTON JA CRAIG HK
Citation
Ja. Washington et Hk. Craig, DIALECTAL FORMS DURING DISCOURSE OF POOR, URBAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESCHOOLERS, Journal of speech and hearing research, 37(4), 1994, pp. 816-823
Citations number
47
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics",Rehabilitation
Journal title
Journal of speech and hearing research → ACNP
ISSN journal
00224685
Volume
37
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
816 - 823
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4685(1994)37:4<816:DFDDOP>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
This study describes nonstandard syntactic and morphological forms use d by 45 poor, urban, 4- to 5.5-year-old African American boys and girl s. Distributional analyses revealed three subgroups distinguished by t he percentage frequencies of occurrence of utterances containing speci fic forms, and by the predominant types used by each group. Implicatio ns for characterizing the linguistic productions of young African Amer ican children are discussed.